Harlan Howard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Country music is three chords and the truth.
-- Harlan Howard

#Music #Country #Inspiration
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
-- Harlan Howard

#Song #Writing #Exercise
I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.
-- Harlan Howard

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I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.
-- Harlan Howard

#Titles #Phrases #Littles
I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
-- Harlan Howard

#Emotion #Collecting
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
-- Harlan Howard

#Three #Stories #Minutes
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
-- Harlan Howard

#Pleasure

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

Harlan Howard famous quotes

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